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Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.